From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 17:48:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from account.abs.net (account.abs.net [207.114.5.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDBC37B7E4 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardl@account.abs.net) Received: (from howardl@localhost) by account.abs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3+RBL+DUL+RSS) id UAA95949; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:48:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from howardl) From: Howard Leadmon Message-Id: <200008140048.UAA95949@account.abs.net> Subject: Re: DNS resolution failures wtih NIS?? Help... In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Aug 13, 2000 05:38:24 pm" To: Tom Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:48:51 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL72 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is there some special trick to making it not do host resolution, as I have > > no need to do this. > > > > In /var/yp/Makefile, I commented out the one entry that I thought may have > > controlled that, if there is something elese I need to do could you point me > > in the right direction. > > Make sure "nis" is NOT in /etc/hosts.conf > > Tom > Uniserve Ahh, I thought from the documentation that it HAD to be in /etc/hosts.conf for NIS to work at all with the system, as thats is what enabled the NIS functions. If your using it without that, then my interpretation of the man page is wrong, and I will give that a try.. :) Thanks for the tip, as really all I want NIS for is a common password and group file, and to keep UID's straight on my NFS filesystems.. --- Howard Leadmon - howardl@abs.net - http://www.abs.net ABSnet Internet Services - Phone: 410-361-8160 - FAX: 410-361-8162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message